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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
take advantage of the Motor City’s skilled-labor and manufacturing expertise, design sophistication, and transportation infrastructure. For a time Kirlin created handcrafted chandeliers — said to cost twice as much as Cadillacs — from... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
political system in America is broken, right? Wrong. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work; it just isn’t designed or View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
Operation CRUSH. Davidow put together a talented team that set an outrageously aggressive goal: 2,000 design wins. The goal, the name, the team — aggression was written all over this effort. Andy Grove was and is a tenacious and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
get people who had different backgrounds and interests than us to make a diverse group.” Shin, a Korean-born mechanical engineer who has worked in high-tech finance, and Behrens, a software engineer from Illinois with finance experience,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
in dramatically new ways." McKenney's additional research interests, focusing on managing the implementation and growth of intelligent terminal communications systems, knowledge-based systems, and the design and management of private... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of yesterday, we have over 8,000... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
course of the last nine years, I have, pretty much, worked exclusively on the energy transition and addressing climate change. But continuously, by looking for ways in which business can be a force for good. And can be the scaling View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
most part, because committed mutual fund consumers are investors who hold portfolios of diversified securities and have long-term goals, they are less likely to engage in such frenetic trading. Instead, the Internet's real impact, according to Jay Light, will not be as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
decision; we have to look at our values and find the right course based on that.” The board of directors and executive team have been chipping away at a list of commitments designed to strengthen governance and build in View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
shows you how to set yourself up for investment success by creating an optimal nest-egg withdrawal strategy to ensure you never run out of money; maximizing returns through tactics like reducing your tax bill and making full use of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Leaders understand that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
his childhood in Israel. "I said, 'Is that still around?'" The next day, Birnbaum joined Cohen for a look under the hood. It wasn't pretty: There was no distribution strategy, no real consumer approach, and no optimism among the staff.... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- News
The Category Kingmaker
Krach began his career as the youngest-ever vice president of General Motors, at the age of 26. He was also the founder of GMF Robotics, a joint venture between GM and Fanuc. From there, Krach joined the founding team of Rasna Corporation, which created a new... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
Students in the new joint MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program have the opportunity to participate in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Students in the new joint MS/MBA:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
Stacey A. Lawson (MBA '96) came to HBS with an idea brewing. The former IBM engineer wondered why there were no digital libraries for users of computer-aided design (CAD). Despite the pervasiveness of technology throughout industry, she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
create a prototype of an off-road vehicle, recruiting local mechanics and welders in the coastal town of Kilifi. That laid the foundation for the company’s latest model, the Mobius II, a sleek SUV designed... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 08 May 2015
- News
Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
its “industrial Internet,” an open global network of machines, data, and people that provides analytics and designs solutions to optimize its customers’ complex operations. “The paradigm is not displacement... View Details